The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-09-02

Chat About His European Rain
bles No COIOr Line Across the
Water.

Water.
since Frederick Douglass returned .
few dats ago tr"m his eleven month";
tour IL the EASTERN hemisphere. SAYS The
Washington Post. the old house on shr
hin where he lives IN Cni"ntOwn has
been visited by scores OF friends and ad-
misers y no have journeved over 10 wei
rome the distinguished traveller bas x
sesin. In the afternoon he y generally
seated IN the midst OF number OF WIS.,
isors Of al colors, out on the spacious
sersnda In front of the house. barehead-
ed. with HE bushy. white hair spreading
itself out over his shoulders. TO PARTIES
|he gencrslly tells his sturies out on the
|veranda. individuals he receives in the
library. His desk 10 located IN the re-
ce-s ~ hav- indow looking out upon
I;he Ktrvr grass and the trees IN the or
lehssd and tie large brick Stable whers
lskc owner keeps half dszen carriages
OF various kinds Il is 4 COSY and bnsi.
lness-like Study, aud nos without evi'
'dcnces ~ astissir taste In the way ri
rare picsures aud slasusry. Since hv
Hooked upun The woods wherein Plato
and Aristotle used 10 walk and deliver
their perip~tetic lectures 10 their dis
cirles in The d., of 8rrcisn gresiness
INr. DnugIass sometimes ihrows opei
|she window Of his study and for variet!
walks out upon the pathway through
the orchard toward the stable.
| NJ. Douglass looks fresh and sigor'
'nns and aetive. lie takes pieasure ~
telling how he rsfried his seventy years
snh 10 pounds np 10 the top q ths
highest pyramid in Egypt. which, being
'f73 feet above The ground. IS ONLY sur
passed ii height by the Washington
monument There's no regular stair
Iways.- said he. ITO the pyramid. The
road one has 10 rlimb il very irregular
our hs- 70 rise three or tour
It.es at 4 single step. or course ssid
lhr. II hsd tour Arabs 70 heF me. TIVE
ens before and pulled or were sup.
posed 10 pull and two more pushed "
III we're supposed 10 push - behind, bu
Ii had a. do rio-t of the work myself
II did moi spend much time in Eng
land. In Liverpool I stsid tWo or three
weeks making ~, self familiar with ths
great shipping port. IL London sia't
nnly lev days. ! might have waited
longer, but IL began 70 be 80 foggy TIM
II crossed over % Paris. where | spen
1.-TWO months.
The facet scholar met in Euscpe wa
n vounr negro q black % JET mll
Ihlooded negro. lie took all the prize
I,xss yeas Il The College Of France. 4
|nsn Il moi kept down there - ne y y
this country on account II his color
when I passed through Paris on m
Iwav home. the principal iheaters Of Par
lie we're playing the works Of : co'cre
ldramasitt. while other pieces o. whlc
Ire 10 the author were running q ~
Iosher theatera, and delighted the gaye'
lefty ~ the world. This same coiore
IdramasIss. Dumas. Was driving IN fros
'hi~ country place every day 20 watch u
J, pIsyers rehesrsing his Camille ] q
Inos consider the younger Dumas equ'
HE father. but re has ability euoue
lto have made himself rich BY his wri
|ings In some respects regard the els
Ier Dumas. who was . muIattO. % u
Ieuperior Of Victor Hugo. He may ~
Ibe generally - profound or 90 me'Ios
hut. il my opinion. with alI its inconsi
tencies aud improbas ilities. Victor Hut
! Icnuld never have written The Count
Monte Cristo. The elder Dumas y.
born. L think In Martinique. In q
next room have picture - bic tashe
u full-bIOoded negro. Gen Dumas, ~
Iwas one of Napoleona tsvorisc genersl
"Atser travelling through France. -
land Greece, | crossed over 20 Exyl
I Rome d great. and, ~ the center o. Y
II hrisiian religion. must always % Y